Arabic Poetics In The Golden Age: Selection Of Texts Accompanied By A Preliminary Study (studies In Arabic Literature , No 4) (studies In South Asian Culture)

Studies in Arabic Literature, Arabic Poetics in the Golden Selection of Texts Accompanied by a Preliminary Study Arabic literature is noted for its tradition-conscious consistency and sophistication. In the classical period, poetry and prose reached a high level of refinement and attained standards which are still being applied in the modern Arab world today. The literature of the modern, post-classical, period is no less sophisticated, being a vibrant and flourishing expression of the continued Arabic tradition. The series Studies in Arabic Literature, Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Litrature, founded in 1971, is concerned with all kinds of literary expression in Arabic, including the oral and vernacular traditions, of both the modern and the classical periods.Studies in the series can be literary-historical, analytical or comparative in nature, and can treat of individual works, authors and genres as well as literary traditions in a wider context. Studies dealing with the social, political and philosophical backgrounds of Arabic literature are particularly welcome in the series. The series comprises monographs, thematic collections of articles, handbooks, textual editions and annotated translations. Text editions are as a rule accompanied by a translation on facing pages; both text editions and translations should include comprehensive, critical introductions which give a full and proper appreciation of the text or texts in question Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 8 Introduction 10 Preliminary Study 16 I. Poetry and Religion 18 II. Poetry: Diwān of the Arabs 29 III. Poetry: Lie or Truth 36 IV. Poetry: The Perfect Speech 50 V. Poetry: Science or Art 64 VI. Poetry: The Aristotelian Definition 72 VII. Poetry: The Aristotelian Way of Analysis 79 VIII. Poetry: Imaginative Creativity 89 Texts 110 Al-Mubarrad 112 Introduction 112 Epistle on Poetry 112 Al-Fārābī 118 Introduction 118 Canons of the Art of Poetry 119 From Iḥṣāʾ l-ʿulūm 125 Qudāma 127 Introduction 127 From Naqd ash-shiʿr 127 Al-ʿAskarī 134 Introduction 134 From Kitāb aṣ-Ṣināʿatāin 134 Avicenna 140 Introduction 140 From Kitāb ash-shiʿr 141 Ibn Rashīq 150 Introduction 150 From al-ʿUmda 150 Ibn Sinān al-Khafājī 160 Introduction 160 From Sirr al-faṣāḥah 161 Al-Jurjānī 166 Introduction 166 From Kitāb Asrār al-Balāgha 167 Averroes 185 Introduction 185 From Talkhīṣ Kitāb Aristūtālīs fī sh-shiʿr 186 Ibn al-Athīr 200 Introduction 200 From al-Mathal as-sāʾir 200 Ibn Abū l-Ḥadīd 208 Introduction 208 From Al-falak al-dāʾir 208 Al-Qarṭajannī 215 Introduction 215 From Minhāj al-bulaghāʾ wa-sirāj al-udabāʾ 216 Bibliographical Notes to the Texts 230